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Joshua Eaton

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"I don't need an agenda — I just tell the truth. Let it off the leash and don't touch it. It knows what to do." Investigative reporter covering immigration + more at CT Insider. #nutmegsky Signal: jeaton.04 email: [email protected]

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 4d

EXCLUSIVE: Connecticut has become a destination for quick marriages between immigrants and U.S. citizens from out of state.

Federal immigration officials have taken notice.

My latest with @brigurciullo.bsky.social and @blockhartreporter.bsky.social. www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky

Why couples traveling to Connecticut to wed are raising questions about sham marriages

A CT Insider investigation has found that Bridgeport has become a destination for quick marriages between immigrants and U.S. citizens, with couples traveling from out of state to wed.

www.ctinsider.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1h

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
otened
cer

What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 1h

Really love the far one in the first photo, but they all look great!

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 1h

I coo to her about her lil pink nose often!

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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 1h

During this shortage, some cats have even had to make do with converted nightstands instead of traditional residences…

A tuxedo cat has his body in the top compartment of a nightstand

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 1h

She’s so perfect.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 2h

Begging people to remember Unitarian Universalists exist.

Aarik Danielsen @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social · 2h

"you should be a pastor but where you preach from SATC episodes instead of the bible," she texts me later

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 2h

Traffic lights gleaming off the wet asphalt as the driving bass line picks up where the lilting melody left off at the end of Autumn Leaves.

Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 2h

You can reach me on Signal at jeaton.04. I’m happy to talk off the record.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 3h

Stepping to Derek Guy is like accepting Isaac Chotiner’s interview request. The moment you do it, your fate’s decided.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 3h

FWIW ICE is probably the least accessible federal agency I’ve ever covered, and that includes the CIA.

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 3h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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NPR @npr.org · 6h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 3h

Ta-Nehisi Coates has this beautiful little essay about his time teaching writing at MIT that nails it, I think.

www.theatlantic.com/national/arc...

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 3h

*will, not we’ll, dagnabit

Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 3h

This happens to me with Ross Douthat sometimes.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 3h

Me and who, etc.

Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 5h

It’s Melancholy Jazz Season, babies.

I wanna see y’all strolling down rainy city streets at night with your collars turned up listening to Miles Davis and thinking about long-lost loves.

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 4h

Timeline cleanse: Cardinal pic from the Birdbuddy

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 4h

Makes one of us!

Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 4h

Why do I feel like “in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue” we’ll end up in a plaintiff’s filing or lower court decision down the road?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 5h

Israel raided prisoner family homes across five districts in the West Bank. www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-ba...

Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal

Families of captive Palestinians threatened not to celebrate release of family members following ceasefire deal

www.middleeasteye.net

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 4h

Athena’s laying on her back in my lap while I rub her lil tummy and she purrs, totally zonked out.🥹

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 4h

I can't put into words how much satellites and airplanes are my enemy. This was taken about 50 miles from a major city, an hour time lapse.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 4h

With all of this said, if you find the Church Posting annoying or just too much, I’ll have absolutely no hard feelings if you mute or unfollow me.

And for everyone who follows me for journalism or CT stuff or Athena — thank you for your indulgence.

Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 4h

Been Church Posting™️ a lot lately. Reminders:

1) I don’t care what anyone else does or doesn’t believe even a little.

2) I don’t think people who believe differently from me will go to hell — and don’t believe in an eternal hell at all!

3) I have an M.Div. in Buddhist studies and still love it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 7h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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